On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:51:06PM -0400, Perez wrote: > Hi all, > > Using 8.1.4 and contrib/xml2. When I do a > > select xpath_string(note, '//Thing') as note, > count(aDate) from theTable > group by lower(xpath_string(note, '//Thing')) > order by 2 desc; > > I get an error: > GROUP BY must contain note. > But I can do that for a plain text/varchar field. Adding the non-xpath > note field messes up the grouping. I wonder if it's getting confused about which "note" you're referring to in the GROUP BY clause. > select note, count(aDate) from > (select lower(xpath_string(note, '//Thing')) as note, aDate from > theTable) as foo > group by note This is about the same thing, so why not use that? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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